Music-Genres & Styles-Opera

This classic French opera tells the tale of a humble juggler who seeks to honor the Virgin Mary through his art. Despite his lack of traditional religious training, the juggler's pure heart and earnest desire to do good win the admiration and respect of...

In this award-winning biography, Petsalis-Diomidis closely examines Maria Callas's life in Athens from 1937 to 1945. These years have been largely absent from previous works about Callas, but were crucial to her professional and personal growth. The author examines her professional development, her studies,...

In Performing Opera: A Practical Guide for Singers and Directors Michael Ewans provides a detailed and practical workbook to performing many of the most commonly produced operas. Drawing on examples from twenty-four operas ranging in period from Gluck and Mozart to Britten and Tippett,...

In Oh Joy! Oh Rapture! expert and enthusiast Ian Bradley explores the world of Gilbert and Sullivan over the last four and a half decades, looking at the way this "phenomenon" is passed from generation to generation. Taking as his starting point the expiry...

Vincenzo Bellini on Stage and Screen, 1935-2020 offers nine case studies of the history of Vincenzo Bellini's operas on stage, on screen, and in sound, video and performance art. This investigation begins in 1935, the hundredth anniversary of the composer's death and the year...

Farinelli and the King is a "profoundly funny and haunting mediation on melancholy and the therapeutic powers of music" set in the Royal Spanish court in the 18th century. Depressed and plagued by insomnia, Kind Philippe V of Spain lies awake in his chamber....

Opera is the grandest and most potent cultural expression of the nationalist movement which led to the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1918. During this period Czech opera developed into a genre of major artistic importance cultivated by composers of the stature of...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: George Frideric HandelISBN-10: 1447441370ISBN-13: 9781447441373Publisher:...

The Zarzuela Companion is a comprehensive guide to the zarzuela's most popular and romantic works written after 1850, with chapters devoted to the major Spanish zarzuela composers, writers and singers. Complete synopses of all sixty works selected are delivered at the level of detail...

Renowned Mozart scholar Daniel Heartz brings his deep knowledge of social history, theater, and art to a study of the last and great decade of Mozart's operas. Mozart specialists will recognize some of Heartz's best-known essays here; but six pieces are new for the...

Examines how stories of biblical families were reconfigured and projected in the genre of the oratorio, a form of sacred opera, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Based to a great extent on the Old Testament, the largely Catholic musical-dramatic genre was popular in...

The first publication of Le trouv?re in full score, and the first of Verdi's French operas to appear in The Works of Giuseppe Verdi series. By the time Le trouv?re premiered at the Paris Op?ra in 1857, Giuseppe Verdi had first-hand knowledge of the...

This book introduces a new perspective on Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo (1607), a work widely regarded as the 'first great opera', by exploring the influence of the Mantuan Accademia deglia Invaghiti, the group which hosted the opera's performance, and to which the libretto author, Alessandro...

Explores the meaning[s] of music, the most intricate and significant language invented by our culture. From Daniel Albright, author of Musicking Shakespeare and Berlioz's Semi-Operas, comes a collection of essays on music and on dance, probing the problems of articulating the meaning[s] of music;...

The tale of Peachum, thief-taker and informer, conspiring to send the dashing and promiscuous highwayman Macheath to the gallows, became the theatrical sensation of the eighteenth century. In "Beggar's Opera", John Gay turned conventions of Italian opera riotously upside-down, instead using traditional popular ballads...

Part cultural history, part biography, this is the fascinating story of Richard Wagner's life, influences, gift for storytelling, and artistic revolution, culminating in his dramatic journey to write The Ring Cycle. The Ring Cycle is one of the most epic and compelling operas of...

How do you create a style of opera that speaks to everyone, when no one agrees on what it should say -- or how? French and Italian varieties of opera have intermingled and informed one another from the genre's first decades onward. Yet we...

This book explores the crossroads between autobiographical narratives and musical composition in Alban Berg's Lulu, unveiling aspects of encoded social customs, gender identity, and personal experiences within musical structures. Exploring the crossroads between autobiographical narrative and musical composition, this book examines Berg's transformation of...

A renowned Verdi authority offers here the often-astounding first history of how Verdi's early operas -- including one of his great masterpieces, Rigoletto -- made their way into America's musical life. The operas of Giuseppe Verdi stand at the center of today's operatic repertoire,...

Simply Opera is a collection of arias, dances, choruses, interludes, and overtures from famous operas. These selections have been carefully arranged by Tom Gerou for Easy Piano, making them accessible to pianists of all ages. Phrase markings, articulations, fingering, pedaling and dynamics have been...

In the mid-nineteenth century, Chinese opera theater arrived as one of the significant performing art forms in California. Nancy Yunhwa Rao excavates and contextualizes the important history of Chinese Opera Theater, bringing to light the ways it became woven into the financial, political, social,...

In the mid-nineteenth century, Chinese opera theater arrived as one of the significant performing art forms in California. Nancy Yunhwa Rao excavates and contextualizes the important history of Chinese Opera Theater, bringing to light the ways it became woven into the financial, political, social,...

Fifteen years since the publication of its first volume, this invaluable guide to some of the most challenging aria excerpts continues with Volume II. Featuring an entirely new selection of arias, Guide to the Aria Repertoire, Volume II brings together many sources to aid...

Fifteen years since the publication of its first volume, this invaluable guide to some of the most challenging aria excerpts continues with Volume II. Featuring an entirely new selection of arias, Guide to the Aria Repertoire, Volume II brings together many sources to aid...

In 1935, the Norwegian soprano Kirsten Flagstad made her United States debut in a live radio broadcast that went across the country and made her an overnight success. Flagstad went on to enjoy an astounding career at the Metropolitan Opera, becoming one of the...

In 1935, the Norwegian soprano Kirsten Flagstad made her United States debut in a live radio broadcast that went across the country and made her an overnight success. Flagstad went on to enjoy an astounding career at the Metropolitan Opera, becoming one of the...

A history -- the first ever -- of the abundant traditions of German-American musical theater in New York, and a treasure trove of songs and information. Nineteenth-century New York was, after Berlin and Vienna, the third largest German-populated city in the world. German-language musical...

Opera and the City analyzes court-city (and state-society) tensions surrounding gender, class, and ethnicity during the Qing dynasty through the prism of opera performance in the capital city of Beijing.Author: Andrea GoldmanISBN-10: 0804792054ISBN-13: 9780804792059Publisher: Stanford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/10/2013Pages: 386Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.00h x...

Follow the dramatic story of love and betrayal in Donizetti's grand opera of La Favorita. This libretto includes both English and Italian text as given by W.S. Lyster's Grand Italian and English Opera Company. A must-read for any opera enthusiast.This work has been selected...

The first book about Elliott Carter's only opera--or indeed about any single work by this still-productive modern master. In 1997, the eminent American composer Elliott Carter teamed with British music critic/librettist Paul Griffiths to create the one-act opera What Next? Hailed by the New...

A half century after his death in 1960, Swedish tenor Jussi Björling remains one of the most beloved singers in the world. He spent forty-five of his forty-nine years performing in public, rapidly conquering opera-house and concert stages on both sides of the Atlantic....

A full-length study of two of Berlioz's most unique works, which combine the highest goals of both symphony and opera and incorporate two of the greatest classics of Western literature into a total fusion of the arts. This work studies two works that are...

Opera Jakobin (The Jacobin in English) belongs together with Rusalka, Cert a Kaca among most often played operas by Antonin Dvorak. Final version of Jacobin was composed by Dvorak in 1897. Songs and arias are recorded in the notes in consecutive order. Therefore I...

"The Little Sweep" is a three-scene opera aimed at children written by the English composer Benjamin Britten, with a libretto by Eric Crozier. It is the second part of "Let's Make an Opera!", the first part being a play within which the cast assume...

An ambitious study of the ways opera has sought to ensure its popularity by keeping pace with changes in media technology. From the early days of television broadcasts to today's live streams, opera houses have embraced technology as a way to reach new audiences....

Giroud and Kayetell the full story of The Tales of Hoffman for the first time. After discussing the work's influences and history, the book details sources for the opera, including the complete Barbier and Carr? play. The annotated libretto is published in full, with...

The Dove of Peace is a comic opera in three acts written by Wallace Irwin and first published in 1912. The story follows the adventures of a group of travelers who are stranded in a small European country during a revolution. The main character,...

""An Adventure of Don Quixote"" is a novel written by George Alexander Macfarren and originally published in 1846. The book is a retelling of the classic Spanish novel ""Don Quixote"" by Miguel de Cervantes, which follows the adventures of a delusional nobleman who believes...

Author: Pyotr Il TchaikovskyISBN-10: 079357367XISBN-13: 9780793573677Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 20Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 10.45h x 6.77w x 0.09d

A detailed investigation of the reception and cultural contexts of Puccini's music, this book offers a fresh view of this historically important but frequently overlooked composer. Wilson's study explores the ways in which Puccini's music and persona were held up as both the antidote...

The Toughest Show on Earth is the ultimate behind-the-scenes chronicle of the divas and the dramas of New York's Metropolitan Opera House, by the remarkable man who rose from apprentice carpenter to general manager. Joseph Volpe gives us an anecdote-filled tour of more than...

Author: Robert F. WatersISBN-10: 1107628067ISBN-13: 9781107628069Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/21/2023Pages: 277Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d

The Sho-Gun: An Original Comic Opera is a book written by George Ade and published in 1904. The book is a light-hearted and humorous take on the story of a Japanese Shogun who travels to America to find a wife. The story is set...

Such Sweet Compulsion: The Autobiography of Geraldine Farrar is a memoir written by the renowned American opera singer, Geraldine Farrar. The book chronicles her life from her childhood in Massachusetts to her rise to fame as one of the most celebrated opera singers of...

This book examines the impact of the daily life, political climate and artistic institutions of Vienna on its musicians and musical tastes between 1815 and 1830. Emphasis is given to Beethoven, Schubert, Paganini and Johann Strauss where their careers reflect typically Viennese musical life...

The Dance and Opera Stage Manager's Toolkit details unique perspectives and approaches to support stage managers beginning to navigate the fields of dance and opera stage management in live performance.Author: Susan Fenty Studham, Michele KayISBN-10: 0367566575ISBN-13: 9780367566579Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/30/2024Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 10.00h...

Heinrich Marschner was a prominent German composer of the early 19th century, known for his operas and other theatrical works. In this book, Hans Gaartz provides a comprehensive overview of Marschner's operas, including detailed synopses and analyses of each work, as well as historical...

This book explores the responses of leading European avant-garde painters to the operas of Richard Wagner, the most influential composer of the late nineteenth century. The term avant-garde represents a twenty-first century evaluation of certain nineteenth-century artists working in a variety of advanced styles,...

Meet the creators behind the words of Canadian opera in this exciting new collection of contemporary libretti. Featuring Ours by Robert Chafe, Rocking Horse Winner by Anna Chatterton, Beatrice Chancy by George Eilliott Clarke, Missing by Marie Clements, Nigredo Hotel by Ann-Marie MacDonald, Shelter...

This first of the classic two-volume survey of Handel's operas was first published in 1987 and reissued in a revised paperback edition in 1995. Now it is brought back into print in a year which has seen numerous productions and recordings of the operas...